Hanover College will participate in Indiana Private College Week, July 20-24. During that period, Hanover and Indiana’s 31 private, non-profit colleges and universities invite students, parents and others interested in the college selection process to experience the personality of each campus through tours, informational sessions and conversations with students and staff. All activities are free of charge.

Each day during the week, Hanover will host a group tour of the campus beginning at 10 a.m., followed by an admission presentation at 11 a.m. There will also be an afternoon session with the tour starting at 1 p.m., and a presentation at 2 p.m.

Indiana’s private colleges encourage and welcome visitors throughout the year, however, this concentrated week offers students an opportunity to visit as many campuses as they would like without missing school.

Recruitment experts Ruffalo Noel Levitz have reported findings that prove the campus tour is the most influential element in the application and enrollment process.

Visitors between the ages of 16 and 20 touring ICI campuses during Private College Week will have the chance to enter a drawing for either a Microsoft Surface or Apple iPad mini tablet. Entry forms and rules will be available at each campus.

Dean's List honors announced for winter-spring terms

Congratulations to the following students who have attained Dean’s List honors for the 2015 winter/spring terms. To qualify, students must be enrolled full time and earn a GPA of 3.5 or higher.

Senior athletes Brooke McKay (Carmel, Ind.) and Josh Green (Beaumaris, Australia), along with former football standout Brett Dietz, highlighted award recipients at the Hanover College Athletic Honors Banquet. The annual event was held in the Horner Health & Recreation Center.

Dietz, a 2004 Hanover graduate, was inducted into the College’s Athletic Hall of Fame. McKay and Green were named Hanover’s outstanding senior female and male athletes, respectively.

Dietz spent time as a member of Hanover's basketball, baseball and golf teams, but made his mark as a quarterback for the Panthers' from 2000-2003. He helped Hanover win three Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference championships and also earn three berths in the NCAA Division III national playoffs.

A two-time all-Heartland Conference selection, Dietz led the nation in total offense in 2003 with 380.5 yards per game. He also set school single-season records with 575 attempts, 360 completions and 4,031 passing yards.

He eventually closed his collegiate career ranked third in Hanover career touchdown passes (67), fourth in career completions (583) and fourth in completion percentage (61.6%).

Dietz played professionally in Finland before moving to the Arena Football League, where he later became the first player to earn rookie-of-the-year awards in the AFL (Tampa Bay Storm, 2007) and AFL2 (Louisville Fire, 2006).

McKay led Hanover's women's golf team to back-to-back Heartland Conference championships and appearances in the NCAA Division III national tournament in 2014 and 2015.

A four-time all-Heartland Conference honoree, McKay earned four top-five finishes in the league tournament. She was the HCAC's medalist as a sophomore and junior. She also placed second as a senior after falling in a playoff.

McKay played in a school-record 68 tournaments and earned medalist honors a program-record 18 times. In addition, she holds Hanover's 18-hole (72), 36-hole (148), 54-hole (246) and 72-hole (322) records and also set the school's single-season scoring average mark this year with 79.09 strokes per match.

She was 21st overall to help propel the Panthers to a 12th-place finish in the 2015 NCAA III championship. She led the squad to a 15th-place finish in the 2014 NCAA tournament.

Green played three seasons as an attacker with Hanover's men's lacrosse team and has, additionally, been a punter for the football squad for three seasons.

A two-time first-team all-conference selection in lacrosse, Green established Hanover's career record for goals (121) and also set the Panthers' single-season records for goals (48), assists (35) and points (75). He also holds the program's single-match records for goals (10), assists (eight) and points (13).

As a senior, Green led Hanover in scoring with 75 points and also tallied 47 ground balls and 13 caused turnovers. He scored a team-leading 40 goals and added his school-single-season-record 35 assists.

Green earned second-team all-Heartland Conference honors for the football team in 2014 after averaging 39.2 yards per punt. In his three seasons on the gridiron, he has averaged more than 38 yards per punt, with a career long of 69 yards. He has 16 career punts of more than 50 yards and landed 36 inside the 20-yard-line.

Duncan, a thrower, received the Glen and M.J. Bonsett Track & Field Award. He has also played four seasons as a lineman with the Panthers' football program.

Team academic awards were presented to Hanover's men's and women's cross country teams.

The women's cross country squad earned the Dean's Award, given each year to the team with the highest grade-point average for the academic year. The unit, coached by Josh Payne, posted a 3.37 grade-point average.

The men's cross country team received the Faculty Athletic Representative Award, given to the team that has shown the most improvement in its collective grade-point average. The group, also guided by Payne, raised its grade-point average .46 from the 2013 season.

Hanover celebrates 182nd Commencement

Hanover College celebrated its 182nd Commencement, Saturday, May 23, 2015, in an afternoon ceremony at The Point on Hanover’s campus. The 245 graduates of the class of 2015 are the most diverse in school history.

The day began with the traditional Baccalaureate ceremony. Along with an address by Hanover President Sue DeWine and speech by senior speaker Cameron Graca (Rineyville, Ky.), the College conferred a bachelor of arts degree in honor of Benjamin Franklin Templeton, the first African-American to attend Hanover (1832-1836), but who did not complete his studies. Nearly 180 years later, the College wished to celebrate Templeton’s legacy as a trailblazer and invited his four-times great grandson, Sean Edward McKissack, to accept the degree in his ancestor’s memory.

Also graduating were the first seniors from the Benjamin Templeton Scholarship Program, which awards full-tuition to high-achieving students dedicated to social justice, tolerance and diversity. The inaugural class includes seven accomplished leaders who represent five academic majors and more than 20 national and campus-based organizations. All of the senior scholars have participated in project-based internships, while six scholars have also studied abroad. For more information about the Benjamin Templeton Scholarship Program, visit hanover.edu/diversity.

Steinman to lead cross country program

Anna Steinman has joined the Hanover College athletic department and will lead the Panthers’ men’s and women’s cross country teams. She will also work with Hanover’s track & field program.

Steinman comes to Hanover after serving two seasons as an assistant cross country and track & field coach at Salisbury University (Md.). While at Salisbury, she instructed the Sea Gulls’ distance and middle-distance runners, as well as providing support for recruitment, strength and conditioning and meet management.

In addition to her work at Salisbury, Steinman also served as a sports-performance intern at University Orthopaedic Associates. In the role, she created programs for individuals returning from physical therapy, assessed imbalances and injury risk and set training programs for distance runners.

Steinman also continues to compete. She completed her first marathon in November, turning in a time of 3:05.09 as the 86th overall female to finish in the 2014 New York Marathon.

A 2013 Salisbury graduate, Steinman earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education. She will complete work on a master’s degree in applied health physiology this month.

While a student-athlete at Salisbury, she was a four-year member of the cross country and track & field teams and twice earned all-Capital Athletic Conference honors. She served as a team captain for both squads, was a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and worked as a student-athlete mentor.

Steinman is a member of USA Track & Field, the national governing body for track & field, long-distance running and race walking in the U.S., as well as the American College of Sports Medicine and Garden State Track Club.

She holds track & field technical certification through the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

Panthers close NCAA with record round

The Hanover College women’s golf team closed the NCAA Division III Championship with a school-record round of 314 and finished 12th overall in the four-day event. The 72-hole tournament completed play Friday, May 15, at the Mission Inn Resort in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla.

Hanover's 314 in the fourth round was 28 shots better than the team’s previous record of 342, set during the third round of the 2011 tournament. The Panthers, which moved from 15th place to 12th with the final-round effort, totaled 1,353 strokes (347-349-343-314) in the championship.

Senior Brooke McKay (Carmel, Ind.) fired a four-over-par 76 in the closing round. Her score stands as Hanover’s lowest individual round in its three tournament appearances.

McKay and Shepherd each earned top-35 finishes in the 110-golfer field. McKay finished 21st with a 322 (79-86-81-76). Shepherd followed in 34th place, just eight strokes behind McKay, with a 330 (84-85-84-77).

Gingerich landed in 56th place with a total of 342 strokes (94-82-89-77). Wuerch was 77th after a four-round 359 (90-96-89-84) and Smith finished 94th with a 375 (95-102-92-86).

Williams College (Mass.) earned the NCAA III team title with a 1,263 (319-322-309-313). Wittenberg University (Ohio) was second with 1,281 (323-327-308-323).

McKenzie Ralston from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (Texas) captured medalist honors by four strokes with a 301 (74-71-79-77).

Jenner to give book reading about late Hoosier senator

Madison attorney Bill Jenner will read from his newly released book, "Senator William Ezra Jenner of Indiana: Remembered by his son William Edward Jenner," May 14, at 7 p.m., in the Agnes Brown Duggan Library. The event is free and open to the public.

The elder Jenner has been described as the most colorful Hoosier political figure of the 20th century. No biography of this storied senator, who was in the U.S. Senate 1947-1958, has been written until this year. The younger Jenner, senior partner in the Madison firm of Jenner, Pattison, Sutter & Wynn, LLP has surveyed his own records, state archives and hundreds of newspaper articles about his flamboyant and respected conservative father in order to write this biography.

The first World War II veteran to serve in the U.S. Congress and the people’s choice as leader of the Republican party in the state, Jenner was a voice of conservatism that rang through a time of New Republicanism, appeasement of Soviet Russia, the beginnings of the rapid growth of government domination of everyday lives and the glorified welfare state. His thumping oratorical style, unwavering support of the values of country, personal liberty and family, along with his innate brilliance at local politics, made him the unqualified favorite of the press, even if they didn’t always agree with him.

Senator Jenner has been called the forerunner in his political philosophy and legislative action program of such conservative leaders as Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, and was universally respected by both sides of the aisle for his amiable style, hard work as a legislator, and unfailing loyalty and sense of humor. His papers are located in the Joseph Evans Wood Memorial Special Collections and Archives Center, located on the second floor of the library.

Krantz honored for developing online resources

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) has awarded Professor of Psychology John Krantz with the 2015 MERLOT Psychology Classics Award. Krantz earned the honor for his work “Psychological Research on the Net” and received the award at a ceremony April 23 in Dallas.

“Psychological Research on the Net houses links to open research projects in which users can opt to participate,” said members of the MERLOT Psychology Editorial Board. “The compilation of projects is broad-ranging and contemporary, and students can learn about and experience the research process by participating in actual psychological research studies. Overall, the site serves as an excellent, valuable resource for both psychology students and researchers.”

Krantz joined the psychology department in 1990 from Honeywell Corporation where he worked on the human factor of cockpit displays. His interests include visual perception and the use of the World Wide Web for psychological research and teaching.

MERLOT (http://www.merlot.org) is an international initiative enabling faculty to integrate technology into higher education. It is an online community of faculty and institutions collaborating to increase the quantity of high quality web-based, interactive teaching and learning materials. The MERLOT website is a free gateway for these web-based materials. Finding web-based materials to incorporate into one’s course is just the first step for faculty; faculty must also decide if the materials are correct, effective teaching-learning tools, and easy to use. A continually growing collection of high quality online teaching and learning materials is realized through MERLOT’s peer review process. MERLOT conducts the peer review of online materials and ensures reliable and valid reviews through the selection and training of the editorial board members as well as on-going support for the review process. The MERLOT Community offers additional services to both instructors and students that help improve the learning process.

DeWine honored for commitment to the arts

President Sue DeWine received the Hanover College Award for Excellence in the Arts at the College’s annual event to celebrate student artistic achievement, The President Honors the Arts. The performance took place Saturday, April 11 at the Lynn Center for Fine Arts.

Nominated by the College’s music department, DeWine earned the honor for her support of departmental performances, her investment in the choral and instrumental programs, her expansion of music ensembles and her advocacy for all of Hanover’s arts programs.

Past recipients of the award include Nathan Montoya and Anne Vestuto, owners of the Village Lights bookstore in Madison, Ind.; Lou Knoble, who taught art and art education in Madison for more than 30years; piano technician Amos Plaster; and Paul Owen, who was the resident scenic designer at Actors Theatre of Louisville for 35 years.

HCAC to host Unified Bowling Championship

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The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference, in partnership with Special Olympics, will conduct the first Unified Sports Bowling Championship, Saturday, April 11 at 1 p.m., at the Expo Bowling Center in Indianapolis, Ind.

More than 100 athletes from Special Olympics chapters in Indiana and Ohio and student-athletes from Heartland Conference member institutions will combine in teams to compete for the Unified Bowling Championship.

”We are very excited about this event as a part of our conference’s growing partnership with Special Olympics”, stated HCAC Commissioner Chris Ragsdale. “It is a rare and very special moment when you are able to create a sporting event where Special Olympics athletes and intercollegiate athletes are able to share in a competitive experience. The experience of sharing in the joy and excitement of competition together is a moment neither group will soon forget.”

Unified is a term that reflects athletes with and without intellectual disabilities competing together on a team. Each team will have four members, two athletes with intellectual disabilities and two without. Each HCAC member institution sponsors three teams at the event.

“The HCAC Unified Bowling Tournament is a first-of-its-kind event”, said Michael Furnish, President/CEO of Special Olympics Indiana. “After several years of supporting Special Olympics as volunteers, the HCAC’s student-athletes are taking a big step in making our athletes their teammates. It’s now time to Play Unified!”

Teams finishing first, second or third will receive gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively. Fourth and fifth places will receive ribbons. The team with the highest score, including handicap, will be awarded the Heartland Conference’s traveling trophy. This trophy will reside with the winning team and institution for the following year.